David Higham Prize for Fiction

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The David Higham Prize for Fiction was inaugurated in 1975 to mark the 80th birthday of David Higham, literary agent, and was awarded annually to a citizen of the Commonwealth, Republic of Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa for a first novel or book of short stories. It was cancelled in 1999 due to "the lack of publicity its winners received."

Past winners

1975 - Jane Gardam - Black Faces, White Faces and Matthew Vaughan - Chalky

1976 - Caroline Blackwood - The Stepdaughter

1977 - Patricia Finney - A Shadow of Gulls

1978 - Leslie Norris - Sliding: Short Stories

1979 - John Harvey - The Plate Shop

1980 - Ted Harriot - Keep On Running

1981 - Christopher Hope - A Separate Development

1982 - Glyn Hughes - Where I Used to Play on the Green

1983 - R. M. Lamming - The Notebook of Gismondo Cavalletti

1984 - James Buchan - A Parish of Rich Women

1985 - Patricia Ferguson - Family Myths and Legends

1986 - Jim Crace - Continent

1987 - Adam Zameenzad - The Thirteenth House

1988 - Carol Birch - Life in the Palace

1989 - Tim O'Grady - Motherland

1990 - Russell Celyn Jones - Soldiers and Innocents

1991 - John Loveday - Halo

1992 - Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

1993 - Nicola Barker - Love Your Enemies

1994 - Fred D'Aguiar - The Longest Memory

1995 - Vikram Chandra - Red Earth and Pouring Rain

1996 - Linda Grant - The Cast Iron Shore

1997 - Ronald Wright - A Scientific Romance

1998 - Gavin Kramer - Shopping

References

David Higham Prize for Fiction Wikipedia

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